marxy's musing on technology

Great excitement as the Elecraft KX3 s are starting to ship . The first one, ordered on December 27, has left the building. I got my ord...

I'd recently read the BoingBoing piece title " Anything an ultrabook now " when I noticed this in the mail: An Asus Ultra...

At the meeting on Sunday at Dural, I proposed a construction challenge for the Home Brew Group: To build an AM transmitter for 40m, specif...

Cameron McKay, VK2CKP, was kind enough to give an excellent presentation at today's ARNSW Home Brew Group meeting at Dural NSW. I've...

I like the AppleTV. It's tiny, runs cool, has AirPlay and the remote is very simple. As soon as the HD version was announced I ordered o...

I love the tech site The Verge , but this made me laugh. Relative to 0 Kelvin, this would be a pretty big increase in temperature - if ...

It should get easier to receive high quality short wave digital radio mondiale from April 1, 2012. "RA will commence a DRM schedule ...

The WSPRnet map is great but it hasn't been updated to Google Maps v3 so I've started working on my own version here . Current...

A bit quiet here due to a very nice weekend away with old friends. Regrettably I've returned a sunburnt wreck. Yes, they're pla...

What a morning! Up at 5:15am to follow the Apple keynote. Great job gdgt by the way. Now the software updates are flowing in: iOS 5...

There's been a lot of talk about the inadequacy of 16/44.1 compressed tracks recently. The thing that makes a big difference is the b...

My iPhone 4 is starting to lose battery capacity. Apple says that after 400 cycles the battery loses 20%. I charge each night and recently I...

Tuning a radio by pressing keys or even mouse movement doesn't quite have the familiar feel of an actual knob. Griffin makes a nice knob...

We're having widespread rain in NSW at the moment, so much so that the Warragamba is overflowing for the first time since 1998. It...

Here's some video impressions of the Wyong field day: The numbers were clearly up this year, probably a combination of good weather...

Our old HP Laserjet 1022n has run for many years but since about the time of Leopard a bug appeared in the driver, that still hasn't b...

I've enjoyed the Ensemble RXTX kit build but I'm having a devil of a time with audio under Windows XP. There's not a lot of ham ...

I'm pleased to report that the build of the Ensemble RXTX kit is complete and I've hacked it into a box. While there is a purp...

We mostly use Apple Macs here (except for a Windows XP netbook for some ham radio software). We love Apple's iWork suite but my wife i...

I'm all for going paperless and have switched to paperless notifications of most things, (although I do find myself printing a lot out...